Book description
World's End is the story of Donald Wheal¹s childhood in
Chelsea's World's End at the height of the Second World War.
Not for him the privileged bohemian world of Chelsea a few hundred
yards away. Descended from rural immigrants, ladies of the night and
bare-knuckle fighters, Donald Wheal¹s upbringing took place amidst
grimy factories and generating plants, illegal street bookmakers, dog
tracks, tenements and street walkers who plied their trade in
Piccadilly and Soho.
World's End is the story of how he and his family struggled
free from this underclass. It is also an individual history of the
Second World War, of a small boy¹s grappling with the bitter
separation of evacuation, the return to an already battered London,
the wonderland of bomb-damaged houses to play in, and the nights of
terror as the Blitz returned.
DONALD WHEAL is the real name of DONALD JAMES, the critically
acclaimed thriller writer of Monstrum, The Fortune Teller and Vadim.
As Donald Wheal he has also written The Fall of the Russian Empire and
The Penguin Dictionary of the Third Reich.
